Charity work wins party for nine-year-old Wolverhampton fundraiser
A nine-year-old Wolves fan has won a top award after raising more than £5,000 for charity.
Louis Johnson, from Tettenhall Wood has been raising cash since the age of five after being inspired by fundraising mum Teresa.
He was one of five 'Everyday Heroes' named from 2,000 applicants in a national competition, for his work for Compton Hospice and the Retired Greyhound Trust.
The schoolboy was thrown a surprise party at Christ Church Junior School - and Wolves legend Steve Bull attended.
Louis and his classmates celebrated his achievements raising money for charities over the last four years.
His first fundraising event was the Compton Hospice five mile memory walk in West Park as a five-year-old.
He has tackled sponsored walks for Barnardos, sponsors four greyhounds, adopted a rabbit and donated money for two meerkats memorial plaques.
More recently he took part in last weekend's Carvers Walk as part of the Wolverhampton Marathon, walking three miles - in fact one of the shortest charity walks he has done to date.
His mother Teresa, 42, has been involved in charity work for more than 20 years after losing a friend to breast cancer and nominated Louis in the competition, run by Pork Farms food group to celebrate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
She said: "I'm so proud of Louis, he is a wonderful boy with a heart of gold. He is always thinking of others and trying to help whenever he can.
"We've told him to maybe calm it down a bit because of his school work but he just flat out refuses, if anything he wants to do more."
Teresa in fact nominated Louis for the Everyday Hero, which were nationwide nominations then reduced to 25 finalists with five winners selected by a panel of judges, with all winners given their own pop up party.
